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A55363	Annotations upon the Holy Bible. Vol. I wherein the sacred text is inserted, and various readings annex'd, together with parallel scriptures, the more difficult terms in each verse are explained, seeming contradictions reconciled, questions and doubts resolved, and the whole text opened / by the late reverend and learned divine Mr. Matthew Poole.	Poole, Matthew, 1624-1679.	1683 (1683)	Wing P2820; ESTC R39678	6,571,344	1,258

24. the wilderness be a fruitful field and the fruitful field be counted for a forrest r Which is Allegorically understood The meaning may be this God's people who were desolate and destroyed shall be Revived and Flourish and their flourishing Enemies shall be brought to Desolation and Destruction It may also signify The Conversion of the barren and despised Gentiles and the Rejection of the Iews in the time of the Messiah 16. Then judgment s Just Judgment as the next Clause explains it shall dwell in the wilderness and righteousness remain in the fruitful field t Justice shall be Executed in all the parts of the Land both in the barren and fruitful Places and shall be practised by all My People Which agrees with that Promise Isa. 60. 21. Thy people shall be all righteous c. 17. And the work of righteousness shall be peace u The effect of this prevailing practice of Righteousness shall be Prosperity and outward Felicity and the effect of righteousness quietness x Tranquility both of Mind and outward Estate and assurance y Or confidence The observation of God's Precepts will beget in them a confidence and assurance of God's Mercy and the fulfilling of his Promises for ever 18. And my people z Either the Gentiles who then shall be My People Or the Iews to whom this Promise shall be made good upon their Conversion to Christ in the latter times of the Gospel shall dwell in a peaceable habitation and in sure dwellings and in quiet resting places 19. When it shall hail coming down on the forrest a Heb. And it shall hail c. As my Blessings shall be poured down upon my People who from a Wilderness are turned into a fruitful Field as it is said ver 15. So my Wrath and Judgments which are signified by hail Isa. 28. 2 17. and elsewhere shall fall upon them who were a fruitful Field but are turned into a Forrest as was said ver 15. i. e. upon the unbelieving and rebellious Iews who seem to be there designed under that Notion ‖ Or and the city shall be utterly abased and the city b Either 1. Babylon the great Enemy and Oppressour of Go●…'s People Or 2. Ierusalem which though now it was the Seat of God's Worship and People yet he foresaw by the Spirit of Prophecy That it would be the great Enemy of the Messiah and of God's People shall be low in a low place c Heb. Shall be humbled with humiliation Which by an ordinary Hebraisme signifies Shall be greatly humbled or brought very low 20. Blessed are ye that sow d As the barren Forrest shall be destroyed with hail ver 19. so the fruitful Field shall be improved and bring forth much Fruit which is signified by a Declaration of the blessedness of them that Sow in it beside all waters c In all moyst and fat Grounds which are like to yield good Fruit. But this passage as well as others in the foregoing Verses is to be understood mystically and seems to respect the times of the Gospel The Prophet reflecting upon his own unsuccessful Labours of which he complains Isa. 49. 4. and elsewhere and foreseeing by the Spirit the great and happy Success of his Successors the Ministers of the Gospel tacitely bewails his own unhappiness who sowed his Seed upon dry and barren Ground by congratulating the happiness of the Apostles who sowed their Seed more generally upon all fit Grounds without any distinction between Iews and Gentiles and who found the Ground to wit the hearts of the people more moistned and softned and better prepared to receive the good Seed of God's Word that send forth thither the feet of the ox and the ass f Which Creatures they employed in plowing and sowing the Ground Deut. 22. 10. Psal. 144. 14. Isa. 30. 24. CHAP. XXXIII 1. WO to thee that * Chap. 21. 2. Hab. 2. 8. spoilest a To Sennacherib who wasted the Land of Iudah and thou wast not spoiled b Thou didst not meet with any considerable Opposition but wast victorious over all thine Enemies of which the Assyrian boasteth Isa. 10. 8 9. 36. 18 19. As Sennacherib did with Hezekiah 2 Kings 18. 14 17. and dealest treacherously c and they dealt not treacherously with thee d None of thine Enemies could prevail against thee either by force of which he speaketh in the former Clause or by treachery as here Or when they dealt not c. when Hezekiah did not deal treacherously with thee If it be said that Hezekiah dealt treacherously with him in breaking his Faith and rebelling against him it may be answered That Hezekiah neither promised nor owed him any Service or Subjection What was done in that kind was done by Ahaz onely And he onely begged his assistance for a particular Work and paid him well for it 2 Kings 16. 7 8. and the King of Assyria did not keep his Conditions with him for he distressed him but strengthned him not 2 Chron. 28. 20. d The Prophet contemplating the Judgment which was now coming upon God's People directeth his Prayer to God for them when thou shalt cease to spoil thou shalt be spoiled e When thou hast performed the Work of chastising my People for which I sent thee thou also shalt be spoiled by thine Enemies e Our Arm or Strength The change of persons is most frequent in Prophetical Writings and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously they shall deal treacherously with thee 2. O LORD be gracious unto us we have waited for thee be thou their * Psal. 85. 7 8. arm every morning f When we offer the Morning Sacrifice and call upon Thee Which yet is not meant exclusively as if he did not desire God's help at other times but comprehensively the Morning being put Synecdochically for the whole day The Sence is Help us speedily and continually our salvation also in the time of trouble 3. At the noise of the tumult g Which the Angel shall make in destroying the Army the people h Those of the Army who escaped that stroke fled at the lifting up of thy self the nations i The People of divers Nations which made up his Army were scattered 4. And your spoil k That Treasure which you have raked together by spoiling divers People shall be gathered l By the Iews at Ierusalem when you shall be forced to flee away with all possible speed leaving your Spoils behind you like the gathering of the caterpillar m Either 1. passively with as much ease and in as great numbers as Caterpillars are gathered and destroyed Or rather 2. actively as appears from the next Clause as Caterpillers or Locusts for the Word signifies either gather and devour all the Fruits of the Earth which was a common Plague in those Countries as the running to and fro of

follows are within me i Besides those evils which are past Ch. 1. there are other miseries that are constant and fixed in me the sharp pains of my body and dismal horrours of my mind the poison whereof k Implying that these Arrows were more keen and pernicious than ordinary as being dipped in God's wrath as the barbarous Nations then and since used to dip their Arrows in poison that they might not only pierce but burn up and consume the vital parts drinketh up my spirit l i. e. Exhausteth and consumeth either 1. my vital spirits together with my blood the seat of them and my heart the spring of them as poison useth to do But I doubt the Hebrew word ruach is never used in that sense Or 2. my soul which is commonly the Spirit my mind and conscience So he tells them that besides the miseries which they saw he felt others and far greater though invisible torments in his soul which if they could see they would have more pity for him And in this sense this place is and may very well be otherwise rendred whose poison my spirit drinketh up i. e. my soul sucks in the venom of those calamities by apprehending and applying to it self the wrath of God manifested and conveyed by them * Psal. 88. 15 16. the terrours of God m Either 1. great terrours or 2. God's terrible Judgments or rather 3. these terrours which God immediately works in my soul either from the sense of his wrath accompanying my outward troubles or from the sad expectation of longer and greater torments do set themselves in array n They are like a numerous and well-ordered Army under the conduct of an irresistible General who designs and directs them to invade me on every side against me 5. Doth the wild Ass bray † Heb. at grass when he hath grass or loweth the Ox over his fodder o Thou wonderest that my disposition and carriage is so greatly altered from what it was Ch. 4. 3. 4 5. but thou mayest easily learn the reason of it from the brute Beasts the Ass and Ox who when they have convenient and common food are quiet and contented but when they want that they will resent it and complain in their way by braying or lowing See Ier. 14. 6. And therefore my carriage is agreeable to those common principles of nature which are both in Men and Beasts by which their disposition and deportment is generally suitable to their condition It is no wonder that you complain not who live in ease and prosperity nor did I when it was so with me but if you felt what I feel you would be as full of complaints as I am 6. Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without Salt p Can or do men use to eat unsavoury meats with delight or without complaint This is either 1. a reflection upon Eliphaz his discourse as unsavoury which could not give him any conviction or satisfaction But his censure of Eliphaz his speech begins not till v. 14. and then it proceeds Or rather 2. a justification of Iob's complaints of which both the foregoing and following Verses treat by another Argument Men do commonly complain of their meat when it is but unsavoury how much more when it is so bitter as mine is which is implied here and expressed in the next Verse where the sense here begun is compleated and th●…s general Proposition is accommodated to Iob's condition or is there any tast in the white of an Egg q Heb. in the white of a yolk i. e. which encompasseth the yolk of an Egg. 7. The things that my soul refused to touch are as † Heb. sicknesses of my meat my sorrowful meat r Heb. as the sicknesses or sorrows of my meat i. e. as my sorrowful meat which I am constrained to eat with grief of heart The particle as either 1. notes not the similitude but the truth of the thing as it is oft used as hath been formerly noted and proved So the sense is That such meat as formerly he should have abhorred to touch either for the quality of it or for his tears or ulcerous matter which mixed themselves with it he was now forced by the necessities of nature and his own poverty to eat Or 2. implies that the following words are not to be understood properly but metaphorically And so the sense may be this Those grievous afflictions which according to the principles and common inclinations of humane nature I dreaded the very touch and thought of they are now my daily though sorrowful bread I am forced constantly to feed upon them as other persons in great afflictions are said to be sed with bread of tears Psal 80. 5. and to eat ashes like bread Psal. 102. 9. Others make this a censure of Eliphaz his words as ungrateful and loathsom to him But that sense seems neither to agree with the words of this Verse nor with its scope and coherence with the former of which see the notes on v. 6. 8. O that I might have my request s i. e. The thing which I have so passionately desired and notwithstanding all your vain words and weak Arguments do still justly continue to desire to wit death as is expressed v. 9. and more largely Ch. 3. and that God would grant me † Heb. my expectation ●…he thing that I long for 9. Even that it would please God to destroy me t To end my daies and calamities together that he would let loose his hand u Which is now as it were bound up or restrained from giving me that deadly blow which I desire O that he would restrain himself and his hand no longer but let it fall upon me with all its might so as to cut me off as it follows and cut me off 10. Then should I yet have comfort x The thoughts of my approaching death would comfort me in all my sorrows This would solace me more than life with all that worldly safety and glory and happiness which thou hast advised me to seek unto God for yea I would harden my self in sorrow y i. e. I would bear up my self with more courage and patience under all my torments with the hopes of my death and that blessedness into which I know I shall after death be admitted as he more fully speaks Ch. 19. 26 27. whereas now I pine away in lingring and hopeless miseries Or I would burn i. e. I am content to burn in sorrow Or I would pray as this word signifies in Hebrew Writers and praying may be here put for prai●…ng or worshipping of God as it is frequently used in Scripture in or for my sorrow or pain Then I would worship God and say Blessed be the Lord's Name for these afflictions as I did for the former Ch. 1. 20 21. let him not spare z But let him use all severity against me so far as to cut